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<blockquote data-quote="eddie c" data-source="post: 4848267" data-attributes="member: 972"><p>That is a good million dollar question. </p><p>1. Determine if you plan to hunt or just target shoot. Keep in mind, a 45# bow will kill a deer if you put the arrow where it counts. You don't have to have a 60-80# recurve or longbow to hunt with.</p><p>2. What s your physical ability as far as drawing a bow? It has been stated many times a person needs to start with a 30/35# bow to get their form down then go buy another stouter bow. I don't think that is necessarily true with everyone. Imo if a person can reasonably handle a 45/50# bow in the beginning, they can start with one and not have to "upgrade" later. My opinion is that when a shooter gets tired and starts to mess up, they should stop right then and rest. Some of us hard headed joker's have a tendency to try to push it and create bad muscle memory on our forms.</p><p>3. There are a lot of good lower price bows, new bows, that won't break the bank and will make excellent hunting target bows. The hard part is finding what fits YOU.</p><p></p><p>There were 2 hard parts for me. One: on my first bow I tried to tune like a compound. Forget that method. That cost me a lot of money in the long run. I was blaming the bow instead of my ignorance and arrogance, got rid of a lot of good bows in search of a perfect bow. Pay attention to the tuning methods, especially arrows</p><p>Two: coming up with my shooting style. I worried too much about my style being "correct for the masses". Check out the different methods, then decide on one or come up with a combination of several. A good friend invited me to hunt with him one weekend with I first got started. I don't remember if we shot at a target or not but that Friday night while we were eating, I was asking a lot of technical questions. He stopped me and said " you have to find your own shooting style. What works for me may not work for you. Since you are a hunter, the best thing for you to do is grab a bunch of arrows and go stump shooting. You will learn more doing that than anything."</p><p>He was right. My style is a combination of different types of methods. Now I don't read any how to stuff on shooting because if I get to thinking about it I get messed up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eddie c, post: 4848267, member: 972"] That is a good million dollar question. 1. Determine if you plan to hunt or just target shoot. Keep in mind, a 45# bow will kill a deer if you put the arrow where it counts. You don't have to have a 60-80# recurve or longbow to hunt with. 2. What s your physical ability as far as drawing a bow? It has been stated many times a person needs to start with a 30/35# bow to get their form down then go buy another stouter bow. I don't think that is necessarily true with everyone. Imo if a person can reasonably handle a 45/50# bow in the beginning, they can start with one and not have to "upgrade" later. My opinion is that when a shooter gets tired and starts to mess up, they should stop right then and rest. Some of us hard headed joker's have a tendency to try to push it and create bad muscle memory on our forms. 3. There are a lot of good lower price bows, new bows, that won't break the bank and will make excellent hunting target bows. The hard part is finding what fits YOU. There were 2 hard parts for me. One: on my first bow I tried to tune like a compound. Forget that method. That cost me a lot of money in the long run. I was blaming the bow instead of my ignorance and arrogance, got rid of a lot of good bows in search of a perfect bow. Pay attention to the tuning methods, especially arrows Two: coming up with my shooting style. I worried too much about my style being "correct for the masses". Check out the different methods, then decide on one or come up with a combination of several. A good friend invited me to hunt with him one weekend with I first got started. I don't remember if we shot at a target or not but that Friday night while we were eating, I was asking a lot of technical questions. He stopped me and said " you have to find your own shooting style. What works for me may not work for you. Since you are a hunter, the best thing for you to do is grab a bunch of arrows and go stump shooting. You will learn more doing that than anything." He was right. My style is a combination of different types of methods. Now I don't read any how to stuff on shooting because if I get to thinking about it I get messed up. [/QUOTE]
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